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Edited collection examining the relationship between science fiction and the formation of cult cinema.

Minton loves anything that moves - boats, planes, cars, trucks, submarines and hot-air balloons - and he's always ready for action! His friend Turtle is not so brave, but together they have wild adventures. And you can make your own models of Minton's vehicles.

Over the last fifteen years, people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise-tying us back to the earth.

New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes seventeen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the 18th century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold Wa...

The Definition of Anti-Semitism explores the ways in which anti-Semitism has historically been defined, demonstrates the weaknesses in prior efforts, and develops a new definition of anti-Semitism.

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehi...

Born in 1926, Erik Bruun is an activegraphic designer in Finland who woninternational respect for his wide varietyof works such as logotypes, brand guidelines, posters, books, stamps and evenFinnish banknotes.Often describing beautiful sceneries inFinland, he is also well known as a naturalistwith deep love for his homelandfilled with rich nature.This is the one-and-only treasured bookwhich introduces a number of his worksfrom his long career....

Drawing on extensive experience, the authors focus on the conceptual and mathematical foundations underlying the quantification, interpretation and management of risk. They cover standard topics as well as important new subjects such as the use of expert judgement and uncertainty propagation. The relationship with decision making is highlighted.

Winner of Mom's Choice Gold Award. What if a very important person invited you to lunch? How would you feel? What would you wear? Would you wash your hands and your face? What would you do with your hair? This story follows one boy's hilarious adventures into the world of dining with VIPs. Through simple rhyme and picture children will explore their internal motivation to use good manners. The story, while being entertaining, encourages childr...

This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province from 1938-50.

This book describes the historical underpinnings of political theology that continue to exert their influence. The confluence of Roman and Christian notions on the person fuels an exclusionary mechanism that unites by dividing people. Restoring thought to an impersonal place of universal access can help to end this oppressive conceptual regime.

Between the years AD 1000 and 1500, western Christendom absorbed by conquest and attracted through immigration a growing number of Jews. This community was to make a valuable contribution to rapidly developing European civilisation but was also to suffer some terrible setbacks, culminating in a series of expulsions from the more advanced westerly areas of Europe. At the same time, vigorous new branches of world Jewry emerged and a rich new Jew...

This book examines why Western European states have recently introduced citizenship tests, integration courses, contracts, and oath ceremonies.

Ever since Pearl Harbor the drive to defeat the Japanese in Tokyo was end goal for every American with no other consideration. In spring 1945 the warring nations believed that the United States and Allies would be invading the Japanese Home Islands, especially with the collapsing war with Germany. Anyone looking at a map would know this would be nothing like assaulting Normandy. There would be no England for a staging area some 30 miles away a...

Discover Samadhi's wellness secrets right from her clinical experience to you. Drawing on her practice as a healthcare provider and her own holistic lifestyle, she has developed these tips that address the keys to being healthy. She delivers the information in easily digestible portions to inspire and guide you on your path to health. Inside you will find the following and much, much more: Healthy Eating: how to choose healthy foods for you an...

Meditative Moments features 14 beautiful and melodic pieces for solo violin and piano that will inspire peaceful meditation and are perfect for many occasions, this album is a musthave for every professional violinist. Selected for solemn and thoughtful times such as religious ceremonies, funerals, and weddings, the pieces range from Bach, Handel, and Tartini, to Mozart, Mendelssohn, Franck, Grieg, and Faure, as well as Amazing Grace. Though p...

Das vorliegende Werk ist das Tagebuch des Afrikareisenden Paul Pogge, der im Auftrag der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Aequatorialafrikas eine Reise in das Königreich "Lunda" unternahm. Lunda war ein Zusammenschluss verschiedener afrikanischer Staaten, wie der Republik Kongo, dem Nordosten von Angola und dem Nordwesten von Sambia, und existierte von etwa 1665 bis 1887. Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1880.

Reprint of the original and historic - but even today still very interesting - Tourist Guide of the Salzkammergut and its vicinities.

This book examines how the constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process, combined with the factional divisions within parties, affect US representatives' decisions about how to distribute power among themselves. The incorporation of the presidential, senatorial, and House factions in the analysis of House rule making marks an important departure from previous theories, which analyze the House as an institution that makes laws in isolat...